Xbox 360 For Just £150 March 10, 2008

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Microsoft is about to make the Xbox 360 the cheapest console on the block by slashing the European prices later today.

The entry-level Xbox 360 Arcade was spotted this morning on Amazon UK for £149.99, down £40 on its usual price of nearly £190. Also listed was the Xbox 360 Premium and Xbox 360 Elite at the new price points of £190 and £250, down from £250 and £290, respectively.

Tag Heuer Night Vision Glasses March 10, 2008

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Since wearing military issue night vision goggles and driving around with the lights off is highly illegal, watchmaker Tag Heuer has created its Night Vision glasses.

The posh glasses have been designed specifically for drivers and correct the low-light short-sightedness that everyone endures from “twilight to sunrise”. The specs sport titanium frames in both Wide and Panorama shapes with anti-slip elastomere arms. The company says:

“The pale yellow lenses offer constant clear, sharp vision with a very high light transmission rate in order to contrast dark blue and green surroundings without changing colour perception. The special ophthalmic lenses offer an anti-reflective treatment, which reduces glare and offers more accurate sight.”

It might sound like bunkum but these glasses are already being sported by F1 and Indianapolis 500 drivers, and you can expect Le Mans drivers to be queuing up too. The key difference is that they’ll get theirs for free and you won’t. No price yet but they’re shipping soon. -Martin Lynch

[Jalopnik]

Alien Speakers Bring Curves To Your Hi-Fi March 10, 2008

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I like the way that designers play around with speaker design. After all, rectangular can get a bit boring but, I’m sure that I’d never get bored looking at the Alfa [or Alpha] loudspeaker system from Czech audio outfit, SYMBIO Design.

These alien looking devices look alive and I’m pretty sure that if you left the room, they’d move. The Alfa speakers form part of a very unique home cinema set of speakers – with an equally unusual egg-shaped EGGO subwoofer.

IXOS PowerStation Cleans Up Your Electricity March 10, 2008

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This attractive [ahem] slab of hardware is the designed to clean up your electricity in order to make the images of on your expensive HDTV look even more magnificent.

For a long time I never even knew that electricity could be dirty but the AV experts say it is and, IXOS, makers of the XHP420 PowerStation will clean it up again for you for £160. Allegedly, that’s good value in this segment.